On Friday 22 October 2004 20:40, Mark Williamson wrote:
Wikipedia is almost never quite that slow, we were having some problems where all but one of the database servers were offline for a bit, thus the really sluggishly slowness.
You are right that WP is not always slow, but I had noticed that lately its performance was depressing. Today it's better but not perfect, it is still much slower than other websites.
In any case, I think the implementation of a distributed scheme is of great importance.